Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

What would it have been like to walk down the streets of Viking Age Dublin a thousand years ago? What would you have seen, heard and smelled? How w...

The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe tend to think of the Mi...

The political union between England and Gascony or Aquitaine lasted from the early thirteenth century until 1453, and the long series of Gascon Ro...

The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging acr...

Fujiwara no Teika (11621241) was born into an illustrious lineage of poets just as Japans ancien régime was ceding authority to a new political ord...

The 21 studies in this volume, which deal with issues of social and intellectual history, religion and historical methodology, explore the ways whe...

Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagi...

Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagi...

The Wars of the Roses were fought in England from the mid-fifteenth century, as the supporters of Lancaster and York wrestled over control of the c...

Jacopo de Barbaris View of Venice, a woodcut first printed in the year 1500, presents a birds-eye portrait of Venice at its peak as an internationa...

A Treasury of Virtues is a collection of sayings, sermons, and teachings attributed to 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (d. 40/661), the cousin and son-in-law of...

This volume examines Saint Georges intertwined traditions in the competing states of the eastern Mediterranean and Transcaucasia, demonstrating how...

This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW For four deca...

A history of two centuries of interactions among the areas bordering the western Indian Ocean, including India, Iran, and Africa. Beginning in the ...

By exposing the perversion, repression, corruption, and injustice at the heart of Justinian's regime, Prokopios' The Secret History destroyed forev...

Composed in a prison cell in 1298 by Venetian merchant Marco Polo and Arthurian romance writer Rustichello of Pisa, The Description of the World re...

Why did early modern nobilities remain so powerful? In this volume Brown builds on his previous book, Noble Society in Scotland, to argue that in s...

As a persons religious convictions, especially in times past, can be considered fundamental to their character and behaviour, the nature of King Ri...

Robert the Bruce is a man of both history and legend. In his lifetime he secured Scottish independence in the face of English imperial aggression u...

Throughout history, rivers have been a hub for human settlement and have been a key part of local livelihoods, history, and culture, as well as sti...

Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedralone o...

The military operations of Scandinavian societies in the Viking Age depended on their ships. Different types of ships were used in order to transpo...

Reveals how imperial power and local resistance have shaped landscapesThe perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have th...

This collection of essays from both established and emerging scholars analyses the dynamic connections between conflict and violence in medieval It...

This collection of essays, in honour of Professor Roger A. Mason, critically re-assesses what we understand by the terms Renaissance and Reformatio...

Richard III, the most notorious and most discussed of English kings, was also unusual among his contemporaries in regularly signing his books. This...

In the thirteenth century, Italian merchant and explorer Marco Polo traveled from Venice to the far reaches of Asia, a journey he chronicled in a n...

This engaging survey of important works from late antiquity to the beginning of the Renaissance reveals the depth of thought and the diversity of e...

Spanish monarchs recognized the jurisdictions of many self-governing corporate groups, including Jews and Muslims on the peninsula, indigenous peop...

This anthology presents in two volumes a series of Latin texts (with English translation) produced in Britain during the period AD 450-1500. Excerp...

A vibrant portrait of an age when Arabic enlightenment anticipated and inspired the European Renaissance, illuminated by its guiding figures and ri...

This volume fills a major gap: there are no modern publications describing the mosaics of the major Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki aimed at th...

The history of eastern European is dominated by the story of the rise of the Russian empire, yet Russia only emerged as a major power after 1700. F...

The Caribbean before Columbus is a new synthesis of the region's insular history. It combines the results of the authors' 55 years of archaeologica...

Commemorating John Moorman's immense contribution to Franciscan history across five decades, the essays in this collection reflect upon Moorman's d...

The Celestine monks of France represent one of the least studied monastic reform movements of the late Middle Ages, and yet also one of the most cu...

The first full edition and English translation of the RA I.34 Firework Book. Produced from the early fifteenth century onwards, Firework Books ar...

Gregory of Tours, the sixth-century Merovingian bishop, composed extensive historiographical and hagiographical corpora during the twenty years of ...

Gregory of Tours, the sixth-century Merovingian bishop, composed extensive historiographical and hagiographical corpora during the twenty years of ...

How are the Crusades portrayed in popular culture today? Have the medieval images of chivalric and military heroes survived the eras of Oriental...

The Middle Ages in Western Europe extended from roughly 500 to 1500 c.e. During these thousand years, hundreds of monastic communities were foun...

A new perspective on lordship in England between the Norman Conquest and Magna Carta. Multiple lordship- that is, holding land or owing allegianc...

A new perspective on lordship in England between the Norman Conquest and Magna Carta. Multiple lordship- that is, holding land or owing allegianc...

Distinguished photographer Edward Ranney presents nearly one hundred extraordinary photographs of the Peruvian huacas--the sacred rock shrines carv...